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Colony Courier Leader
By Tim Glaze, tglaze@starlocalnews.com
Published: Friday, May 3, 2013
A Corinth clergyman has been arrested after he barricaded a young girl in his office and “begged” her to remove her clothes for almost two hours.
According to an affidavit released by the Corinth Police Department, Pastor Jeffery Dale Williams of The Church of Corinth was identified on five different audio recordings asking the female to take off her clothes so he could see “eye candy” on March 30, 2013. Corinth police arrested Williams on Wednesday, May 1 and charged him with attempted sexual performance on a child – a third degree felony.
Williams bonded out of jail Wednesday night after bail was set at $10,000.
Corinth Lieutenant Jimmie Gregg said the department has been investigating Williams since early April after Child Protective Services sent the CPD two separate reports of sexual abuse allegations against the pastor.
“Someone reported something to CPS,” Gregg said. “Since then, we’ve been investigating this guy. We’ve been on it since April. I can’t release too many details at this point, but we have proof that it is [Williams] on five different audio recordings asking this girl to remove her clothing.”
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